''Seeing Stars'' was an Australian television

variety series Variety show, also known as variety arts or variety entertainment, is entertainment made up of a variety of acts including musical performances, sketch comedy, magic, acrobatics, juggling, and ventriloquism. It is normally introduced by a compère ...

which aired live from 1957 to 1959 on

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station ABV-2 (it is not known if it was also telerecorded for broadcast in Sydney). The series featured a mix of singers,

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rs,

vocal groups List *Archie Bell & the Drells *Backstreet Boys * Bee Gees * Black Ivory * Bloodstone * Blue Magic *Boney M. * Boyz II Men * Brisbane Birralee Voices * Brownstone *Cliff Adams Singers * Crosby Stills & Nash *Danny & the Juniors *Dion & the Belm ...

, and

instrumental An instrumental is a recording normally without any vocals, although it might include some inarticulate vocals, such as shouted backup vocals in a big band setting. Through semantic widening, a broader sense of the word song may refer to instru ...

groups. Some episodes were "themed", for example 27 April 1959 episode featured a calypso theme while 16 September 1957 featured a French night club setting. The final episode aired 18 May 1959. An episode of this series may be held by the

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(per a search of their website).

References

1957 Australian television series debuts 1959 Australian television series endings Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming Black-and-white Australian television shows English-language television shows Australian variety television shows {{Australia-tv-prog-stub